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Before & After: She Cloaked Her 1970s Brick Home in a Concrete-and-Metal "Skin"

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Before: Exterior After: Exterior A new compressed fibre cement sheet and metal enclosure wraps the home. At the time, they were living in a heritage home on a large block in the same leafy suburb of Brisbane. "We We loved the area, and it was a small house on a small block of land.

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Before and After: the Tropicarium of the Bogotá Botanical Garden

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Today, we want to bring you all the information we have compiled since then, both about the competition won by DARP and the construction process - up to its inauguration in 2021 and its evolution in recent times. We hope this architectural journey helps you to know every step, every decision, and every detail that contributed to its realization.

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Before and After: This Sunny San Diego Revamp Shows the Power of Paint

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Before: Exterior After: Exterior Raili kept the exterior mostly as is, but updated it with white paint and a black accent for the unusual round gate. It’s set on three acres of eucalyptus trees and horse trails, and it’s all flanked by a bocce court." Raili says. All it needed was a lot of paint," she says.

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Before and after photos reveal extent of Battersea Power Station redevelopment

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Battersea Power Station reopens tomorrow after a long-awaited redevelopment. This series of before and after photos show the rejuvenated building alongside historic pictures of it in use and as a ruin. Control Room A pictured in 2007 and after the renovation. Photo by Battersea Power Station / Backdrop Productions.

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Before & After: They Wanted Something "Weird and Quirky," So They Fixed Up a "Telescoping" Bungalow

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Before: Exterior Before: The 1916 bungalow had undergone two separate rear additions when the couple purchased it. After: Exterior The house, painted in Poppyseed by Behr, now features a second-floor loft for the couple’s sons and a newly vaulted living room at the front. The board-formed concrete foundation was an early change.

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Before & After: In Nuremberg, a Cramped and Kitschy Flat Gets a Pastel Refresh

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After a decade of searching for the ideal place to raise their young family and work from home, Nuremberg couple Claudia Alraum and Sebastian Grasser discovered an apartment in a turn-of-the-century building in the city’s historic center—a leafy and gently bustling neighborhood—that ticked all their boxes. "The

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Before & After: An Old Montreal Apartment Embraces Sharp Contrast—and a Surprise Sauna

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Before: Entry Before: Edward Brooke owned this fourth-floor unit in a historic Old Montreal building for several years before commencing a gut remodel. When I could afford to redo it, I felt like it should be brought up to the level of the building, in a way that it had never quite reached before."